A MODEL OF THE UNIVERSAL FAMILY
OF THE SUPREMESara Blackstock
10/24/98

1. INNER FAMILY ARENA

This is the foundational family relationship,
which will extend outward to all other arenas of family. Here we experience
our relationship with God our Universe Father and with the Eternal Mother
Son through the Spirit of Truth. This inner family also includes our Thought
Adjusters, and our angels. It is upon the strength of this relationship
that we will be able to fully manifest and experience relationship in all
other arenas of family.

Our inner relationship with God readies
us to move from our HOME - our soul - out into contact with the souls of
others:

"When you once begin to find God
in your soul, presently you will begin to discover him in other men's souls
and eventually in all the creatures and creations of a mighty universe.
" (UB 1733:1)

"The soul is the child of our
personality relationship with our Father-god..." and as these souls
come together in the different arenas of family, we are building through
our personality relationships with our fellows the living temple of the
Mother Supreme." (Dave and Marta Elders)

"You become conscious of man as
your creature brother because you arc already conscious of God as your
Creator Father." (UB 196)

As we build up and out from this INNER
foundational family relationship with God our Father, the Spirit of Truth,
and our angels, we are constructing the glorious living temple of the Supreme
through six (6) other arenas of family. It is in these arenas that our
souls build their muscle; where our bodies and hearts connect to get some
work done.

2. FAMILY OF ORIGIN (BIOLOGICAL FAMILY)

Most of us grew up in a family - in
our biological family. This arena has provided us with our genetic makeup,
some of our abilities and disabilities, our disposition, our talents. This
is the beginning of our experience of relationship that has either helped
or hindered us in our relationships with God and others around us. Most
of us are in intimate relationship with some members of our biological
family mother/father/brothers/sisters, etc. This arena of family relationship
is often one of the most difficult because we are so intimately affected
in the deepest aspects of our lives by what others do and how they live.
We have almost no control over this level of family as children. We take
what we were dropped into. For some of us who grew up in very difficult
family situations, one of our greatest and most painful challenges has
been to heal from the wounds left by this family experience and find out
what HEALTHY FAMILY is about.

3. HOME FAMILY - PARENT/CHILD/CURRENT
FAMILY/CHOSEN FAMILY

This is the arena of family in which
we live NOW - whether we are parents with children in the home, students
in a fraternity house, children in an orphanage, or folks in a retirement
community. From this arena we send our children into the world with a reality
base that they are part of a cosmic family and part of their work will
be to create HEALTHY relationships with others.

4. COMMUNITY/WORK FAMILY

Whenever we walk out of our home family
door we are in our communities - going to school, the cleaners, the gas
station, the grocery store. And we have an opportunity to experience another
level of the family relationship with a brother or sister.

Strong and intimate relationships are
developing in the workplace. More connections are often experienced in
the workplace than in neighborhoods; and if one doesn't have a home family,
co-workers can fill the desire for closer relationships. We might be with
our co-workers more than with our families. If we see them as another arena
of family, we have created another opportunity for intimacy with brothers
and sisters.

5. FAMILY OF SPIRITUAL KINSHIP

Those who are spiritually like minded
in the sense of sharing a particular spiritual path. Catholics, Buddhists,
Hindus, for example, would each be a family of spiritual kinship. We as
believers that The Urantia Book is the 5th epochal Revelation to our planet,
that Jesus was and is who he said he was - the Son of the living God -
are a family who are spiritually likeminded. 2,000 years ago Jesus called
all who believe the truth that he is the Son of the living God, "...the
human fraternity of the divine spirit" (UB 1748)

".... upon this foundation (that
he is the Son of the Living God) will I build the brotherhood of the kingdom
of heaven. Upon this rock of spiritual reality will I build the living
temple of spiritual fellowship in the eternal realities of my Father's
kingdom. "

"And ever since that day this
same Jesus has been building that living temple upon that same eternal
foundation of his divine sonship, and those who thereby become selfconscious
sons of God are the human stones which constitute this living temple of
sonship erecting to the glory and honor of the wisdom and love of the eternal
Father of spirits. " (UB 1748)

6. INTERFAITH FAMILY

The interfaith family is made up of
all mortals on various spiritual paths who are following their highest
light. "As the universe looks upon an inhabited world, it likewise
discerns two great classes: those who know God and those who do not.. "
(UB 1468)

7. GLOBAL FAMILY Every mortal on this
planet who has the capacity of knowing God is a member of the global family,
the world wide family of God.

FATHERLY LOVE

"...Jesus taught his followers
to manifest fatherly love rather than brotherly love. Brotherly love would
love your neighbor as you love yourself and that would be adequate fufflillment
of the "golden rule". But fatherly affection would require that
you should love your fellow mortals as Jesus loves you". (UB 1573)